Women's Basketball

POULTNEY, Vt. – United States Merchant
Marine Academy Head Women’s Basketball Coach Matt Dempsey has
been elected to Green Mountain College’s Athletic Hall of
Fame after his stellar 13-year coaching career guiding the
Eagles.

At Green Mountain, Dempsey led the Eagles to five Mayflower
Conference Championships and to a 216-157 overall record during his
tenure as Head Men’s Basketball Coach. Green Mountain
advanced to the NAIA National Tournament four times under
Dempsey’s tutelage – the only national tournament
appearances GMC’s men’s basketball team has in school
history. Dempsey earned five conference Coach of the Year honors
and was selected as the 1994 NAIA District V Coach of the Year.

Dempsey remains to this day the winningest coach in the
program’s history.

In addition, Dempsey was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach
at Green Mountain from 1986-1989 and also served as the Head
Softball Coach from 1990-2001.

Dempsey is also a member of the Castleton State College Athletic
Hall of Fame. He was inducted in 1997 after having a successful
career as a student-athlete on the men’s basketball team in
the early 1980s.

The induction ceremony will be June 4, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. on the
Green Mountain College campus in Poultney, Vermont.